Sorry about the cliffhanger last chapter... I had to.

But anyways, this chapter's up so it's all good =)

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... I don't own Bleach. If I did, I'd own Byakuya. And if I owned Byakuya... well, you don't actually want to know what I'd do if I owned Byakuya.

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...Right...

The first explosion came as a surprise. Kaili went flying across the room, where she hit the wall, and then crumpled to the floor where she lay motionless. Byakuya fell out of his desk, and if the heavy thud from behind him was any indication, so did Renji. The next explosion was expected, but still painful. By the fifth, being tossed around on the ground was getting old, and Byakuya was about done with it. He scrambled to his feet, wincing slightly as his battered body protested. Renji followed suit, gently lifting Kaili off of the ground. He and Byakuya shared a look. They both knew what they had to do.

Wordlessly, Byakuya sprinted out into the hallway. Not many people were in this hallway, but that was to be expected. At this time of day, most of them would be closer to the doors. By now, he thought, stumbling as the ground under his feet shook again, they'll all be evacuating. And then he would meet them at TG2- the second set of training grounds for the sixth division. Byakuya bent down and scooped up an unconscious young man, carefully slinging him over his shoulder.

The sixth division was the only division in the Seireitei that was actually prepared for a catastrophe such as this. Byakuya had made certain to drill it into the squad members what exactly to do if something happened in the building. The basic plan was, run like hell, grab anybody who can't walk, and meet me at TG2, except expressed in a nicer fashion, since Byakuya had to speak like a noble. They all knew what to do, and the best part was that they were actually doing it! If the situation weren't so bad, Byakuya would have been pleased. He would have to remember to praise them later. After he got out.

Renji ran down the halls, picking up anybody who couldn't walk- surprisingly few, since he was furthest from the exits and everybody before him had grabbed anybody unconscious or unable to run. Kaili stirred a little in his arms, but didn't wake. She was bleeding, but not badly and Renji knew that she would be okay.

He reached TG2 after everybody else, suddenly unsure of what to do next. He carefully set Kaili and some other woman- Renji couldn't quite recall her name at the moment, down with all the other injured. Byakuya wasn't there yet, and Renji felt worry set in, before scoffing at himself for being silly. There was no way that Captain Kuchiki would be killed by something like this! He was probably just making sure that everybody had gotten out of the building. There was no need to worry… right?

It turned out that there wasn't. Byakuya appeared beside him within seconds of Renji debating with himself whether or not to be worried. He laid the three people that he was carrying- two men and a woman, with the other injured and turned to Renji.

"Organize them," he told him quickly.

"What? How?" Renji sputtered. "And where are you…" he stopped when he realized that his captain was once again gone. "Going." He finished sourly, scowling. Trust Captain Kuchiki to just disappear when he needed him. "Now what?" Renji asked the world in general. A tiny hand tugged at his sleeve. Renji looked down.

"I think now you ought to calm them down," Kaili informed him matter-of-factly. "And by the time that you do that, Captain Kuchiki will probably be back."

"Back from where?" Renji grumbled. It was a rhetorical question, and he hadn't really expected an answer, but Kaili gave him one anyways.

"He's probably gone to see whether Head-Captain Yamamoto's alright." She told him. "He suspects an attack on the Head-Captain's life." Renji froze. An attack on Old Man Yama's life? How did Kaili figure this stuff out?

Kaili had been right. Byakuya was heading for the first division, as fast as possible. Another explosion shook the ground, but since Byakuya was using shunpo, it didn't affect him. Byakuya darted quickly past the panicked first division, and into the barracks. Like he had been afraid of, Yamamoto was unconscious. So was his Vice captain, Sasakibe. Byakuya threw both over his shoulder, and shunpoed out of the barracks. The ground heaved underneath of his feet, and he barely managed to get out of the barracks before the grand building tumbled to the ground. Byakuya gently set both Sasakibe and Yamamoto on the ground, and grabbed the first seated officer that he could find. After quickly giving the terrified woman hurried instructions, he returned to TG2, where Renji was ineffectually trying to get the people to listen to him.

"Captain!" Renji exclaimed. "Where-" but Byakuya cut him off.

"That doesn't matter right now," he informed his Vice Captain, absentmindedly unwinding his scarf from around his neck and dropping it in a pile on the ground. The captain's haori soon landed on top of it, followed by Byakuya's glovey things. (Forget the name of them. Anybody know?) Tugging the kenseikan from his hair took a little more work. Byakuya untangled one set, and glared at the things in his hand. He hated the kenseikan. They were uncomfortable and hard to put in and take out. But the worst part was they forced him to wear his hair down, and in his eyes. It was unpractical, stupid, and very annoying. He dropped the first set of kenseikan on the pile of things that he considered 'unneeded'. The second set soon joined them. Byakuya carefully tied his hair up in a high ponytail- the way it had been in his youth, with a hair band that he kept around his wrist for just this purpose. The strands of hair that hung in front of his face weren't quite long enough to be pulled back in the ponytail, so he pushed them back as best as he could and turned towards his division.

Alright. Now he was ready to organize his division.

Kinda cliffhangerish, but not really. I'll probably be uploading the next chapter today anyways so it doesn't really matter...

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... It sounds better when Tobuscus says it... Dammit.